Forbes November 21, 2024
Platform engineering is overtaking DevOps as the term cloud native people use to describe themselves.
Once hailed as the savior of organizational dysfunction, DevOps is causing friction in teams finding that operations is work they never really wanted to do. To get back to a happier balance, DevOps teams are finding that platform engineering helps them to split out operations from application development so that each function can return to focusing on what they do best.
Unlike the Agile Manifesto, DevOps has eluded a formal definition. Its initial formulation was inspired by the 10+ Deploys per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr presentation at the 2009 O’Reilly Velocity Conference where the lack of collaboration between frustrated developer and operations...